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Federal Timber Income Taxes and Private Forest Landowners in the U.S
Recent concern has risen among forestry professionals that forest landowners are unaware of federal income tax provisions available to them that make forest management more cost effective. This concern specifically focuses on nine provisions. These nine provisions are: the treatment of timber …
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Television, mass media, and environmental cultivation: a study of private forest landowners in Delaware
The goal of this study was to survey private forest landowners in Delaware to extend previous studies into “environmental cultivation,” a research perspective that explores the theoretical link between television exposure and potential differences in the ecological worldviews of lighter versus …
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A Study of Cooperative Ventures Addressing the Needs of Forest Landowners in Southern Appalachia
… social, economic, and ecological conditions for forest landowners throughout the United States. One possible response to these new and recurring challenges is economic cooperatives, an old idea being retooled and reapplied, keeping more of the power, control, and profit generated by natural …
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Private Forest Landowners in Virginia and Ecosystem Management: An Analysis of Attitudes and Opportunities
… Conservancy. This creation of this program, The Forest Bank, is an attempt to protect the unique ecological and biological resources of the Clinch River Valley of Southwest Virginia. This study analyzed the attitudes and characteristics of landowners that contribute to their decision to enroll in …
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Investigating the Cooperative Behavior of Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowners when Stands are Spatially Interdependent
… the harvesting behavior of nonindustrial private forest landowners, and their use of forestland for non-timber amenities, is affected by adjacent landowner behavior. The uncertainty an individual landowner has regarding adjacent landowners' preferences, and how the production of non-timber …
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Combined federal-state death tax implications for nonindustrial private forest landowners in the United States
… individuals may be quite different from society, forest landowners are one group who face potentially serious problems due to death taxes. Illiquidity, low cash flows and credit problems can cause difficulties for heirs of forest land. Death taxes are examined from a historical, legal and economic …
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Reservation Prices and Willingness to Accept Price Offers for Nonindustrial Forest Landowners in Western Virginia
… to examine what motivates nonindustrial private forest landowners to accept bids of various levels for harvesting. Through the use of a survey we specifically consider what preferences and landowner characteristics effect these decisions. Landowners were randomly selected from counties in …
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The Impact of Federal and State Income Taxes on Forest Landowners: An Examination of Tax Liabilities and Tax Planning
Federal and state income tax laws pertaining to forest landowners are examined. Income tax liabilities are calculated for hypothetical forest landowners in two income brackets across the 41 states in the U.S. which impose a comprehensive income tax. The income tax liability is calculated to …
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Assessing private forest landowner decision making in Illinois: applied management solutions for diverse objectives
Private forest landowners own nearly half of U.S. forestlands, providing a number of benefits to the American public: a refuge for biological diversity, watershed values, renewable timber production, carbon storage, recreation, and enjoyment. The private forestland base also faces a number of …
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The potential impacts of state income taxes on timber income following the 1986 Tax Reform Act
… income tax were surveyed and changes affecting forest landowners since similar research on this subject (1981-82) are discussed. Several previously favorable provisions were eliminated at the federal level. Although the economic situation and research assumptions have changed, the general …
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ASSESSING THE SHORT- AND LONG-TERM EFFECTIVENESS OF FOREST PLANNING WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILY FORESTS
Family Forest landowners, also known as Non-Industrial Private Forests (NIPF) are subject to much scrutiny by public agencies because they own the majority of forested lands across the United States and because it is difficult to quantify what they are doing with their lands. Significant federal …
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ASSESSING THE SHORT- AND LONG-TERM EFFECTIVENESS OF FOREST PLANNING WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILY FORESTS
Family Forest landowners, also known as Non-Industrial Private Forests (NIPF) are subject to much scrutiny by public agencies because they own the majority of forested lands across the United States and because it is difficult to quantify what they are doing with their lands. Significant federal …
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Economic guidelines for establishing loblolly pine plantations in Virginia
… loblolly pine were developed for Virginia forest landowners. The general procedure used was the structured personal interview. The basic economic guidelines are expected regeneration costs calculated using the actual total regeneration cost and an associated probability of achieving an …
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Non-timber forest product livelihood opportunities in Appalachia
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have been harvested in the wild for generations in Appalachia. Demand for forest farmed raw material and transparent supply chains is growing, which has increased attention on the role of NTFPs in regional livelihoods. We conducted an embedded case study to …
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Planning for small forest landscapes: facilitating the connection between people and nature
A significant area of forest land in the United States is held by a diverse group of people known by the US Forest Service as family forest owners. Surveys reveal that family forest owners own forest land for a variety of reasons including scenery, nature protection, recreation, privacy, timber …
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Collaborative Interface Modeling of Fuel Wood Harvesting Practices: Residential NIPF Landowners of the Jefferson National Forest Wildland/Urban Interface, Montgomery County, Virginia
Residential non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners within the Wildland/Urban interface are an increasingly important forest owner demographic. An increase in rural residential land use is fragmenting historically large contiguous forestlands. Consequently resource management has become …
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Essays on Risk and Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Trading Markets
… which depend on weather and pests. Landowners will not participate in carbon sequestration programs if they expect to incur financial losses by participating. Measurement risk arises because it is difficult to measure actual rates of carbon sequestered due to spatial and temporal …
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ESTIMATION AND MODELING OF FOREST ATTRIBUTES ACROSS LARGE SPATIAL SCALES USING BIOMEBGC, HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGERY, LIDAR DATA, AND INVENTORY DATA
The accurate estimation of forest attributes at many different spatial scales is a critical problem. Forest landowners may be interested in estimating timber volume, forest biomass, and forest structure to determine their forest's condition and value. Counties and states may be interested to learn …
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ESTIMATION AND MODELING OF FOREST ATTRIBUTES ACROSS LARGE SPATIAL SCALES USING BIOMEBGC, HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGERY, LIDAR DATA, AND INVENTORY DATA
The accurate estimation of forest attributes at many different spatial scales is a critical problem. Forest landowners may be interested in estimating timber volume, forest biomass, and forest structure to determine their forest's condition and value. Counties and states may be interested to learn …
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